"Pacific Duets - III"

 #420

         Song:   ho~o dhiire dhiire chadh gayaa nadi mein paani
                 ho~o dhiire dhiire...
                 ho~o koi kahey tuufaan uthaa, koi kahey re aayi jawaani
                 dhiire dhiire...

         Film:   Aagosh (1953)
         Singer: Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar
         Music:  Roshan
         Lyrics: Kaif Irfani (?)
         *ing:   Nutan, Nasir Khan, Shakila
 

 Just when you think you've heard the best from a composer, along comes a new
 soundtrack that completely blows this ephemeral delusion away. Words fail me
 when trying to describe this celestial soundtrack, so I won't even try. I'll
 say this though, it was a multiply traumatic experience to watch the video -
 a) because it is regrettable that this slice of heaven has gone by unnoticed
 (no compilation I have seen has featured any song from Aagosh) and b) the
 nefariously cut-up state of almost all songs in the film (the only song I
 salvaged with minimal damage was the charming Lata-Sudha duet "bansuriya
 kaahe bajaayi")

 As with the earlier ATMJH, the serenity and gentle pace of this song exists at
 both musical and semantic levels (with the "dhiire dhiire..", etc.), a nuance
 that has been ingeniously captured by this master composer through Hemantda's
 rich baritone humming, some lovely flute interludes and a very artful
 coordination of the vocal pieces that betrays an intimacy no physical
 representation could have conveyed as effectively.

 To really get submerged in the sea of tranquillity (to borrow a lunar analogy
 that meshes well with the moonlit picturization of ths song) on which these
 gentle notes float requires a simultaneous audio and visual experience. That,
 however, being (currently) infeasible, I'm going to go ahead and post the
 three antaraas of the song here, the best sweet n'low I can think of :

 (Lata)
 dil mei.n baiTha koi dil ki dhaDkan ginta jaaye, dhaDkan ginta jaaye
 mere dil ke bhed churaakar apne bhed chhupaaye, apne bhed chhupaaye
 ho~o jo jo meri priit baDhe main hotii jaauu.n diiwaani, dhiire dhiire..

 (Hemantda)
 uThti girti lehre.n boley aao saath hamaare, aao saath hamaare
 aanewaali raat ka pehla taara kare ishaare, taara kare ishaare
 ho~o man ki batiyaa.n giit bani giito.n mein aayi ravaani, dhiire dhiire..

 (both together)
 bachpan mei.n hum kar baiThe ek chhoTiisi naadaani, chhoTiisi naadaani
 lekin aaj usii ke dum se hai zindagi suhaani, hai zindagi suhaani
 ho~o do dil kya mil gaye ke aage baDhti jaaye kahaani, dhiire dhiire..

 The other discovery from this movie that I haven't quite recovered from yet
 is the Lata solo "mohabbat ek shola hai bachaa daaman zamaane" (posted by
 Snehal on ATMJH in times gone by). This, however which deserves a dedicated
 post and shall follow (though, of course, not on ATMJH).

 Preeti, modify your .signature :

 God composes on Roshan's harmonium, sings in Mukesh's voice, types in
 ITRANS format, and pronounces saaghar correctly.